You can avoid some problems with the SMP/E dialogs by following these suggestions:

• If you plan to browse or edit JCL created by the dialogs, either allow ISPF to allocate the ISPCTL1 and ISPCTL2 data sets, or allocate them yourself as real (non-virtual I/O) and cataloged.
• If you plan to use OPTIONS entries, use the Administration dialog to define them in the global zone before you specify them on other processing panels. You cannot dynamically create an OPTIONS entry in other SMP/E dialogs (such as the SYSMOD Management dialog) by entering its name on a dialog panel.